Pitted Dates 475 cases of 24 x 1 lb bags

HVF Inc. d.b.a Huson Valley Farms recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 2 August 2017 as Class I. The recall was initiated by the firm. Listeria monocytogenes found on food contact surfaces and non-food contact surfaces.

The record

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Product

Pitted Dates 475 cases of 24 x 1 lb bags

Reason for recall

Listeria monocytogenes found on food contact surfaces and non-food contact surfaces.

Recalling firm

HVF Inc. d.b.a Huson Valley Farms

Firm location

Highland, New York, United States

Classification

Class I

Status

Terminated

Recall number

F-2826-2017

Quantity

232575.4 lbs (total for all products)

Distribution

PA, NH, NY, TX, FL, MA, MD, CA, CO, NJ, GA, MN, MI, IL, OH, AZ, WI, TN, NC, British Columbia

Initiated

21 May 2017

Reported by FDA

2 August 2017

Terminated

30 November 2017

Firm notified by

Telephone

Product codes

Lot: H504817-95

Reading this record

Five things about this record are not in the record itself, and each one changes how it should be read.

• Class I means the FDA judged a reasonable probability that the product would cause serious health consequences or death. The class is assigned by an agency health hazard evaluation under 21 CFR 7.41, not by the firm.
• The firm started this recall itself. Most FDA food recalls are voluntary, and a recall is a food safety plan working rather than failing. The circumstances in which the agency asks for one instead are set out in 21 CFR 7.45.
• This is one of 51 records covering the same recall event. The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so a recall of a product line appears here many times. Counting these records as 51 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 51. Every product code in this event is listed together on the record that covers the whole recall, which is the page a search engine is pointed to for all 51 of them.
• The recall ran for 6 months, from 21 May 2017 to termination on 30 November 2017. Termination means the agency judged that all reasonable effort had been made, under 21 CFR 7.55, and it says nothing about whether product remained in circulation.
• The distribution pattern names 19 states, and the FDA published the enforcement report 2 months after the firm began the recall.
• The product description on this record names no food this site can classify, so it appears on no food-type page. That is a limit of the description rather than of the recall.

Named in the distribution pattern: Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, New York, Texas, Florida, Massachusetts, Maryland, California, Colorado, New Jersey, Georgia, Minnesota, Michigan, Illinois, Ohio, Arizona, Wisconsin, Tennessee, North Carolina. Those pages count recalls by where the RECALLING FIRM sits, which is a different question from where this product went.

What this recall was for

Other records from HVF Inc. d.b.a Huson Valley Farms

The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 52 other records name this firm.

All 53 records for HVF Inc. d.b.a Huson Valley Farms

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